Chapter 4 (Part 1)
"Just Friends"
"No way!" Chanel exclaimed picking up one of the DVD's that was lying on the table as she sat down on the couch. "Madea's Family Reunion! That's like my favorite movie!" She said excitedly.
"I know." Galleria mumbled sitting down next to her friend. "We have to watch it!" she exclaimed bouncing up and down on the couch with a huge grin on her face. Galleria sighed contently she was one of the very few people who saw the normally elegant and cool Chanel act like a kid. It was one of the cutest things Galleria had ever seen.
"Of course Chu Chi. That's why I got it." Galleria said meeting Chanel's gaze and smiling softly at her. Chanel smiled back. "And my favorite popcorn!" she exclaimed looking at Galleria in awe. Galleria smiled at her friend happy that she liked her choice in movies as well as snacks.
'That's Bubbles always thinking about me. She got my favorite movie and everything!' Chanel thought as she let her eyes wonder down to Galleria's lips. She would do anything to kiss those full lips, she thought to herself absentmindedly licking her lips.
'Why me Lord!' Galleria thought. 'Why do I have to be in love with the one person I could never have!' Galleria asked the heavens in frustration.
"So what have you been up to today?" Chanel asked. 'Besides buying my favorite movies and stuff?'
"Oh you know. Went shopping with mom, cleaned up a little (a lot) boring, boring, blazzey. Blazzey." Galleria said. "Oh." Channel nodded. "Oh! I did write a new song though!" Galleria chided. "Really! The lyrics just keep comin' and comin' for you don't they." Chanel said. "Hey what can I say?" Galleria joked. "Shut up!" Chanel exclaimed laughing and smacking Galleria playfully.
'There goes that million dollar smile.' Galleria mused as she laughed along with Chanel. ' See? Just like always. It doesn't have to be awkward.' Galleria told herself.
"So what's it called?" Chanel asked when she stopped laughing. "True Love." Galleria answered. "It's about the ups and downs of a relationship and how if you have true love you can make it through anything." Galleria told her.
"Sounds great." Chanel said in a dreamy voice. "Sing it for me!" she exclaimed excitedly.
"I don't want to." Galleria deadpanned.
"C'mon." Chanel pleaded.
"Please." She said batting her eyelashes innocently.
Galleria could hardly refuse it. She sighed defeated. "Can I do it for you after the movie?" Galleria asked. "Okay." Chanel replied. "Girls! Dinners ready!" Dorthea called out from the living room. "Coming!" the hungry girls shouted in unison as they made their way to the dining room.
"So what's for dinner -" Galleria started before a familiar scent filled her nostrils. A huge grin broke out on her face. "Mom you're the best!" she exclaimed as she looked down at the pot full of Lasagna. Lasagna was one of Galleria's favorite foods.
"I wonder why I didn't smell it before." Galleria thought aloud. "Probably because you were too busy having a fit over getting the house ready for Chanel." Her mother teased while she retrieved a bag of salad from the refrigerator.
Galleria's cheeks turned a dark shade of pink as she made her way to the kitchen sink to wash her hands. Chanel followed. 'Did she actually blush?!' Chanel wondered. 'That was so cute!' she thought realizing she liked having that effect on her friend. Then she scolded herself. 'C'mon girl! Your were doing so well! No more mushy stuff!' she told herself.
As they made their way to the table they were joined by Franco Garibaldi. " Hi Chanel!" he greeted her cheerfully. "What's up Mr. G!" Channel greeted him back happily. "Nothing much!" he answered.
"So how are the wedding plans coming?" he asked as he sat down in his seat at the table. "They're coming good." She answered. "They finally decided to have the reception at the Manhattan Yacht Charters." Chanel continued.
"Oh my gosh! You're kidding right?!" Galleria exclaimed more than a little excited. "That place is off the hook!" she finished.
"Yes it is! And I'm not kidding! I talked them into it this morning! I wanted to tell you in person." She explained. "Well it's wonderful news." Dorthea said.
"Yeah it is." Chanel agreed seemingly deep in thought.
Galleria studied her face wondering what the other girl was thinking about. She made a mental note in her head to bring the subject up later on. "We'll have to have them over for dinner when they get a chance." Franco spoke up referring to Chanel's parents. "You know get their minds off of the stressed of planning a wedding." He finished.
"Most definitely!" Dorthea added. "That would be cool!" Channel said seemingly out of her state of thought. "They have been on wedding overdrive." Chanel admitted. "Then we'll definitely have to do something about that!" Galleria said. "They have a whole month to tripp about the wedding so what's one evening to have dinner with us." She continued. "Now let's eat!" she exclaimed dropping the subject.
Everyone seemed to agree with the words and joined hands. They sat with Mr. and Mrs. Garibaldi across from one another at the heads of the table and Galleria and Chanel across from one another. They blessed the food and dug in. Their meal consisted of lasagna, garlic bread, and salad.
A comfortable silence consumed the table for most of dinner as the hungry family ate and concentrated on their food. "So Galleria," Chanel spoke up interrupting the silence. "Did you tell your mom about yesterday?" she asked. "Tell me about what?" Dorthea asked already interested.
"The two women we saw at the movies when we were with the cheetahs that actually recognized us!" Chanel explained.
"No I forgot to." Galleria answered. "Gosh Galleria. Where has your mind been lately?" Dorthea wondered aloud. 'On Chanel.' Galleria thought. "Um. I don't know mom. Sorry." Galleria offered.
"It's alright honey." Dorthea sighed. "So what happened?" she asked. "Well like Chu Chi said, all of us were at the movies," Galleria started. "We had just come out of the theatre from seeing "Fantastic four 2" when we ran into these two girls - " "Or rather they ran into us!" Chanel interrupted. Galleria rolled her eyes playfully mocking her friend.
"Which ever. Anyways they were like really excited when they saw us." Galleria explained. "Cause they knew who you were?" her father piped in. "Yeah." Galleria replied. "And little Ms. 'Everyone's out to get me' over here and Aqua were freaked out." Galleria stated looking pointedly at Chanel.
"Hey!" Chanel defended looking at Mrs. Garibaldi for support. "You'd be freaked too if two strangers ran up to you jumping up and down and shouting, "It's them! It's them!" Chanel imitated. "Yeah I probably would be a little freaked out." Dorthea admitted. "See." Chanel said sticking her tongue out at Galleria.
'So sexy.' Galleria thought looking at her friend. "Whatever." She said aloud. "Anyways they had recognized us from the festival in Barcelona." Galleria continued. "They said that they'd seen us on the Clan TVE Spanish station performing in the festival." She explained. "I didn't even know it was airing on TV." Chanel spoke.
"Yes; it said that it would in the consent forms for the contest." Dorthea told her. "Well that's why we didn't know!" Galleria exclaimed. "You know we teenagers don't read during the summer. It's like one of our huge commandments." Galleria explained with a serious expression on her face. Dorthea and Chanel laughed. "I should've known!" Dorthea joked with a dramatic tone.
They all began another round of laughs. "Well anyways," Galleria started as she followed Chanel to the sink to soak their now empty plated in water. "We gave them autographs and told them about the CD we are gonna make. They were really excited about it." Galleria finished.
"It's kinda cool having fans." She mused aloud.
"Yeah I guess it is." Chanel admitted. "Now get your forgetful tail in the living room so we can watch my movie!" Chanel joked as she pushed a fake resisting Galleria into the other room. "Thanks for dinner Aunty Dorthea!" Chanel yelled over her shoulder.
'Those two are something else' Dorthea thought to herself. 'Only a best friend would leave an international city and forget their dreams just to make the other happy.' She mused thinking about the whole Barcelona incident. ' And only a best friend would spend a whole entire afternoon making sure everything was perfect for you.' Dorthea continued.
Then another thought hit her. Not many friends would do those things for each other not even best friends. She thought back to the deeply hurt expression on her daughters face when she'd thought that Chanel had chosen Marisol as her new best friend. 'Is there something else going on there?' Mrs. Garibaldi began to wonder.
'No!' she quickly told herself. 'They've been best friends since they were four; there's no way Galleria could……' she knocked the thought out of her head as she went to help her husband with the dishes.
In the living room Galleria was slowly picking up the DVD while talking to Chanel who was sitting on the couch. "So," Galleria started. "What were you thinking about at the table?" Galleria asked. "Huh?" Chanel questioned wondering what her friend was talking to due to Galleria's lack of information.
"At the table when dad was asking you about the wedding; you had this far off look on your face, like you were deep in though." Galleria explained. "Oh." sighed Chanel. "You saw that?" she asked. Galleria nodded silently looking at her friend expectantly.
"Well I was just thinking that in only one month I'll have a father." Chanel admitted. "Yeah you will." Galleria spoke. "Not having second thoughts are we?" she asked afraid that her friend had changed her mind about the whole thing. "No. Of course not!' Chanel said quickly stopping all of Galleria's worried thoughts.
"It's just kind of overwhelming you know?" Chanel explained. "I've never had like a real dad." She said sadly. "But in a month I'll be getting a great one who wants to be there and really just cares." Chanel said. Galleria smiled softly at her friend. "I'm really looking forward to it Bubbles." Chanel admitted excitedly.
"Really? That's good for you Chu Chi." Galleria said putting her hand on top of her friends. The simple gesture sent a surge of warm electricity through both of the girls and both felt it. Galleria began to panic from the feeling and quickly retrieved her hand.
"Let me go put this movie in." she said as she headed towards the TV. "Whoops!" Galleria exclaimed as she dropped the DVD blushing at her clumsiness. "Haven't even got the popcorn yet and I'm already Ms. Butter fingers." Galleria joked as she bent down to pick up the movie. Chanel laughed.
'Whoa!' she thought as she watched Galleria retrieve the DVD. 'Nice butt. Want her! Want her real bad!' she thought. Then she felt a familiar tingle in her nether region. 'Oh my gosh! She's making me wet!' Chanel panicked as she watched Galleria put the DVD into the player. 'Got to get her out of the room!' Chanel thought.
She crammed her brain for a reason to get the other girl to leave the room. Galleria turned around. "Blankey!" Chanel blurted thanking God she had thought of something.
Author's Note: Sorry that's kind of a bad place to cut it off but yeah part 2 we'll be up very soon! Hope you enjoyed part 1! Part 2 we'll be better and all I can say is expect the unexpected! Please review!